Nvidia and Thinking Machines Lab have agreed to a multiyear strategic partnership to deploy at least one gigawatt of next generation Nvidia Vera Rubin systems, with the goal of supporting frontier model training and platforms that deliver customizable Artificial Intelligence at scale. Deployment on the Nvidia Vera Rubin platform is targeted for early next year, positioning the collaboration to ramp up advanced computing capacity in the near term. The companies also plan to design training and serving systems that are optimized for Nvidia architectures to better support large scale Artificial Intelligence workloads.
As part of the arrangement, Nvidia has made a significant investment in Thinking Machines Lab to back the company’s long term growth. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang framed Artificial Intelligence as “the most powerful knowledge discovery instrument in human history” and praised Thinking Machines for assembling a world class team to advance the frontier of Artificial Intelligence. Thinking Machines cofounder and CEO Mira Murati described Nvidia’s technology as the foundation of the field and said the partnership would accelerate efforts to build Artificial Intelligence that people can shape and personalize.
The collaboration focuses on building Artificial Intelligence systems that are understandable, customizable and collaborative, which both companies see as requiring advances in research, design and infrastructure at scale. By combining large scale Vera Rubin deployments with co designed training and serving systems, the partnership is intended to broaden access to frontier Artificial Intelligence and open models for enterprises, research institutions and the scientific community. Both organizations present the effort as a way to ensure that rapidly advancing Artificial Intelligence technologies expand human capability rather than replace it.
